Donald Trump Elected 45th President of the U.S.

November 9, 2016Andrew UjifusaEducation Week

Republican Donald Trump, whose brash campaign for the White House
included strong support for school choice and sharp denunciations
of current education policy, has been elected president of the
United States, the Associated Press reported early Wednesday.

Trump’s victory in the presidential race leaves widespread
uncertainty about what’s in store for public schools under the
first Republican administration in eight years. Aside from school
choice, Trump, a New York-based real estate developer, spent very
little time talking about K-12 education during his campaign. And
he has no track record to speak of or draw on for insights into
what he may propose.

“We’re all engaging in a lot of speculation because there hasn’t
been a lot of serious discussion about this, especially in the
Trump campaign,” said Martin R. West, an associate professor of
education at Harvard University who has advised Republicans,
including 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Sen. Lamar Alexander,
R-Tenn., on education issues.